Goats do roam

goatsdoroamredlabel.jpg This is the name of a South African wine; the rather exotic description is certainly easier to understand then the complicated spelling of the Cape Dutch wineries. 

Gordon’s goats (government of all the talents) are not doing too well. Lords (Digby) Jones, West and Malloch Brown have certainly gone off message. Long ago Ted Heath had a similar problem. When I came into Parliament 15 years ago, I found it difficult – having been running a business- to adjust to a very different culture. The whole political culture is really so different from what these gentlemen were doing before, and it is showing 

I suspect that the goats are unhappy, and some at least will either voluntarily or involuntarily be put out to pasture before this parliament ends. 

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